December 5, 2004, Sunday

To the Editor: I agree that David Merrick was not one of Al Hirschfeld's favorites. But Al understood him as a publicity-seeking mischief maker. The caricature of Merrick as an evil Santa Claus, which was reproduced with Michael Kimmelman's...

February 9, 2003, Sunday

A front-page obituary of the theatrical producer David Merrick on April 27 and three later articles, including one on July 19 about a memorial tribute at the St. James Theater, misstated the date of his death. It was April 25, not April 26. The David...

August 10, 2000, Thursday

On the stage where 48 feet tapped away in ''42nd Street'' and where Carol Channing descended the stairs in a glittering gown in ''Hello, Dolly!'' friends and associates of David Merrick paid tribute yesterday to the maverick showman who produced...

July 19, 2000, Wednesday

A tribute to the Broadway producer David Merrick, featuring songs from his musicals and reminiscences by colleagues and writers, is to take place on Tuesday at 11 a.m. at the St. James Theater, 246 West 44th Street. Mr. Merrick died in April at the...

July 16, 2000, Sunday

ONE day, in the long-ago time when larger-than-life showmen reigned on Broadway, the producer Robert Whitehead had the idea of putting on staged readings in the Belasco Theater on Sunday nights, when the Odets play he was producing there was dark. ...

April 30, 2000, Sunday

To the Editor: Re ''David Merrick, 88, Showman Who Ruled Broadway, Dies'' (front page, April 27): Having worked for David Merrick from 1967 to 1970 as his director of casting, I can attest to the accuracy of your rendering of this extremely...